Forthcoming Colloquia

ABSTRACT

Our understanding of the basic constituents of matter has undergone two revolutionary changes during the twentieth century – from atoms to proton& neutron and then to quarks & leptons.

We have seen all these quarks and leptons by now along with the carriers of their interactions – the gauge bosons. But the story is not complete yet. A consistent theory of their masses predicts Higgs bosons and Supersymmetric particles, which we hope to discover at the LHC. Discovery of these particles will throw light on the nature of phase transition the Universe went through a few picoseconds after its creation, and the nature of dark (invisible) matter that permeates throughout the Universe today, as a relic of that early history.